Devadithya re-elected to European Parliament
Walter Jayawardhana
Niranjan Devaadithya who is also known as Nirj Deva has been
reelected to the European Parliament from the South East of the United
Kingdom.
He kept his seat, according to results issued on Sunday with the
other three Conservative Members in an election which became very
disastrous for the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom. All the
indications were the ruling party would dip below 20 percent .
Devadithya , in a statement said, “I am delighted to have increased the
Conservative vote by 50 percent.
This shows the Labour Party is completely destroyed and the British
people are looking for a new government and new policies in Europe .The
failed policies of Miliband have ended in dust.
Conservative Party’s policies are forming in to warm relations with
the Commonwealth , in which Sri Lanka is a member, as a balance to
Britain’s relationship with Europe”.
He said the Conservative Party will make Commonwealth an equally
important partner like Europe.
Speaking before a Sri Lankan Forum at the Student Union of the Oxford
University in UK , a day before the EU election results were issued ,
Devadithya said Sri Lanka is a country that enjoyed the universal
franchise even before Britain as a functioning democracy.
In 1999 Nirj Deva, became the first Asia-born person to be elected as
a Conservative member of the European Parliament . He represented same
seat from the beginning. He served as the Coordinator on the Committee
on Overseas Development and Cooperation and has been bureau member of
the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary assembly . In the last Parliament he also
served in the Foreign Affairs Committee. |